CHAPTER VI.
HARD TIMES.
A Dreary Winter At Fort Bridger—Short Rations—Mule Steaks—Homeward
Bound in the Spring—A Square Meal—Corraled by Indians—A Mule
Barricade—We Hold the Fort—Home Again—Off for the West—Trapping on
the Chugwater And Laramie Rivers—We go to Sleep In a Human Grave—A
Horrifying Discovery—A Jollification at Oak Grove Ranch—Home Once
More—I go to School—The Pike's Peak Gold Excitement—Down the Platte
River on a Raft—I Become a Pony Express Rider.